Introduction:
For the best knitting, we have to choose the best yarn or ideal yarn for knitting to fault-free fabric or quality full fabric. So we have to care about the yarn properties or for ideal yarn. In this article, we will discuss knitting yarn quality according to USTER STATISTICS.
Knitting Yarn Quality According to USTER STATISTICS
The yarn which will be used for producing knitting goods should have the following qualities/features according to USTER STATISTICS 2001.
USTER STATISTICS for the yarn is 20’s cotton (5% fiber):
| Linear density | Yarn properties | 100% Cotton | 100% Polyester | 50%C + 50%P |
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20’s Cotton 5% fiber |
Tenacity (cN/Tex) | 14-21 | 25-38 | 10-15 |
| CV% of Tenacity | 7-10 | 11-14 | 7-10 | |
| Breaking extension | 5-7 | 11-14 | 7-10 | |
| Work of rupture (N-cm) | 400-500 | 1400-1500 | 800-950 | |
| CV% of work rupture | 15-17 | 13-17 | 15-18 | |
| Thin places km(-50%) | 3-100 | 5-15 | 35-100 | |
| Thick places km(+50%) | 80-500 | 6-40 | 125-300 | |
| Neps/km(+200%) | 125-600 | 5-30 | 500-1250 |